Meeting with Bruno - 09/17/2010
· Barry/Kul/Bruno Souza (Brasil/Java)/Carol
· Bruno – building user groups …found Java communities …organized free-software of the Campus Party …
· Idea: better participation of Wikimedia in Campus Party…(10 year anniversary of Wikimedia)
· Possibilities:
o Build an organization
o Partner with an existing organization … ex FISL/ASL, by setting up projects , or House of Digital Culture or ?
· Low barrier to entry if the user groups are kept informal
· Formal approach ;
· User groups – Brazil Java User Groups - 40 nowadays – “the most important thing is not how many we have, but how long they stay”…”continuity is the most important”
· DFJUG – large user group, but lead by one passionate guy…
· Importance of recognition of good things they are doing…and somehow they are getting some support
· The local are the ones important… build empowered communities / planting of the seed
o Ex.: take volunteer to meetings/interviews
· Communication – local…
· Fundraising – local…go after their own resources / sponsorships x business deals
· “good for the company”…”for its business” …when companies decide to contribute and put some hours of its work forces
· Sun Campus Ambassador program….one of the things they did was to create user groups within universities. But Brazil people did not like. You are not supposed to create a user group…you are supposed to help user group…You are supposed to do the hard things, that volunteers do not want to do (Eduardo Lima – get contact) / No Oracle employee can be a user group leader
· Chapters within universities – runned by professors
· Who do we want to reach ?
· VIP THINGS
o Brazilians like to contribute /participate
o Brazil has a very general lack of respect for copyrights…but this is good in the sense that many people want to have people using their stuff
· Broadband plans in Brazil – think about project and check what the project is financing locally …partner with Universities
· Bruno – run cloud computing lab at USP ..
· Think about PUC…and think about other private universities
· Do the not glamorous work..
· Travel around the country…like oer…caravana
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Ni!
Oi Névio.
On 11/09/2010 06:45 PM, nevio carlos de alarcão wrote:
> Brazil. Bruno is a leading innovator within the Java Users Groups
> within Brazil and he provided us with helpful advice on Brazil.
>
> Alguém conhece o Bruno Souza? Grato
O Bruno é um cara bacana, apesar de não o conhecer pessoalmente. Esteve
na WMF logo antes de eu chegar, em Setembro.
Ele foi, e talvez ainda seja, o mandante do pessoal do SouJava, uma ONG
de usuários de java no Brasil.
Além disso, ele participou da diretoria da Open Source Initiative, junto
com a atual coordenadora de tecnologia da Wikimedia, Danese Cooper.
Também trabalhou na organização da área de software livre da Campus
Party Brasil.
O que ouvi lá na WMF foi que o Bruno falou coisas favoráveis à nossa
estratégia de mutirão. Evidentemente para desgosto da diretoria que,
para vingar-se, resolveu decretar que eu nunca estive lá... ;D
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> ==September 2010 Visitors to the San Francisco Office==
>
> * Clay Shirky (Wikimedia Foundation- Advisory Board)
> * Kate Filbert (Screen Sprint)
> * Quiddity (Screen Sprint)
> * Another Believer (Screen Sprint)
> * Peregrine Fisher (Screen Sprint)
> * John Broughton (Screen Sprint)
> * Orangemike (Screen Sprint)
> * Laura Hale (Screen Sprint)
> * HJ Mitchell (Screen Sprint)
> * Dave Cummings
> * Mark Gibson
> * Daniel Scarpelli
> * Xochi Birch
> * Itzik Edri (Wikimedia Israel)
> * James Forrester
> * Austin Hair
> * Timothy Garton Ash
> * David Munir Nabti
> * Yasuda Yutaka
> * Rose Shuman
> * Special Agents from the San Francisco FBI Field Office,
> Cybersecurity Division (invited brown bag presentation)
> * Harel Cain (Wikimania Haifa Planning Team)
> * Deror Avi (Wikimania Haifa Planning Team)
> * Shay Yakir (Wikimania Haifa Planning Team)
> * Amir Aharoni (Wikimania Haifa Planning Team)
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